ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.
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Viva La Fiesta!
It's time to celebrate Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara.
- 2007
- 02:56
- Diane Bock
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Variations on a Thirst: Presenting the 2003 TCF ShortDocs
In 2003 the TCF introduced our "ShortDocs", by inviting producersto submit written proposals for radio stories (five to seven minutes in length) about a single topic - 'thirst'.
- 2003
- 01:02:50
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Vagy/Szomjusag/Thirst
As a boy, George Bien was sent thousands of miles away from Hungary to Siberia, to the notorious Gulag - the prison camp system in the Soviet Union, where millions of people perished.
- 2003
- 06:45
- Alex van Oss
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Vent
The expression or release of [ ].
- NA
- 03:00
- Nicholas Pencak
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Venture into the Void
A man relives his encounter with a deadly alien.
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Very Sweet with Edge of Tartness
Rachel Steinhardt encounters an unexpected memento of her grandmother's life.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Will Coley
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The voice of my inner goddess
A clash of meditation and everyday life.
- 2016
- 02:00
- Rikke Mia Skovdal